study
English
Verb
(en-verb)
(usually, academic) To revise materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.
- Students are expected to start studying for final exams in March.
- I need to study my biology notes.
(academic) To take a course or courses on a subject.
- I study medicine at the university.
To acquire knowledge on a subject.
- Biologists study living things.
To look at minutely.
- He studied the map in preparation for the hike.
To fix the mind closely upon a subject; to dwell upon anything in thought; to muse; to ponder.
* Jonathan Swift
- I found a moral first, and then studied for a fable.
To endeavor diligently; to be zealous.
* Bible, 1 Thessalonians iv. 11
- And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you
Synonyms
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Noun
(studies)
(label) A state of mental perplexity or worried thought.
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*:wel said the kynge thow mayst take myn hors by force but and I my?te preue the whether thow were better on horsbak or I / wel said the knyght seke me here whan thow wolt and here nygh this wel thow shalt fynde me / and soo passyd on his weye / thenne the kyng sat in a study and bad his men fetche his hors as faste as euer they myghte
(label) Thought, as directed to a specific purpose; one’s concern.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Just men they seemed, and all their study bent / To worship God aright, and know his works.
Mental effort to acquire knowledge or learning.
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*1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
*:During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study ; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
*1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations
*:Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost
, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?
, passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}
The act of studying; examination.
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Any particular branch of learning that is studied; any object of attentive consideration.
*(William Law) (1686-1761)
*:The Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament, are her daily study .
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:The proper study of mankind is man.
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke
, magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News
, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
(senseid)A room in a house intended for reading and writing; traditionally the private room of the male head of household.
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*(Nathaniel Hawthorne) (1804-1864)
*:his cheery little study
An artwork made in order to practise or demonstrate a subject or technique.
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(label) A piece for special practice; an .
Synonyms
* (private male room) cabinet, closet (archaic)
Coordinate terms
* (private male room) boudoir (female equivalent)
Derived terms
* brown study
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research
Noun
(uncountable) Diligent inquiry or examination to seek or revise facts, principles, theories, applications, etc.; laborious or continued search after truth.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Philip E. Mirowski
, title=Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits
, volume=100, issue=1, page=87
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, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research , the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
(countable) A particular instance or piece of research.
* Macaulay
- The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.
* 1747 , The Scots magazine (volume 9, page 567)
- The first step I took in this so necessary a research , was to examine the motives, the justice, the necessity and expediency of the revolution
Synonyms
* researches
* investigation
* exploration
* examination
* study
* inquiry
* scrutiny
Derived terms
* desk research
* empirical research
* field research
* historical research
* primary research
* proresearch
* qualitative research
* quantitative research
* scientific research
* secondary research
Verb
(es)
To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
To make an extensive investigation into.
To search again.
Anagrams
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* reachers
* re-search
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